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How one Kwame Brathwaite photo captures the '60s 'Black Is Beautiful' movement by Makeda Easter

It was the summer of 1963 when photographer Kwame Brathwaite captured a protest over Wigs Parisian, a white-owned wig shop that opened on Harlem's 125th Street near the Apollo Theater. One moody black-and-white photo provided a glimpse into tensions over the ways black women wore their hair in...

SOURCE: Los Angeles Times at 10:50PM on May 9, 2019

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